THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12524, 17 March 1904, Page 3

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

NOTES OF THE AGE. . Tins is "an age of learning, it is an age of short outs, motor-cars, and games.— Catherine Milnes Gaskell in Lady's Realm. DETERMINED DESPONDENCY. If the horse is to be abandoned as a means of traction, we are not sure whether the species will benefit. Horses may then be fattened for food.— Notes. - BRITISH HABITS. It is the British elector's habit to hold to the ideas in which he was brought up, and to resist for a long time anything new, be it good or bad.—Fremdenblatt, Vienna. , FLAT HERESY. The importance of cricket as a unifying Imperial factor can no doubt be enormously exaggerated. It is, after all, a mere gam©, such as ping-pong or skittles.—The Outlook. . ____________ DESPERATE PRECAUTIONS. Many female mountain-climbers in Switzerland, if they are American, French, or English, and value their complexions, smear their faces with soot to protect them from the sun's rays.—Family Doctor. GOLF INVENTIONS.. Unless the inventors come to an end with their inventions soon, we shall have to pass a new ride of golf forbidding any ball to be driven more than 300 yards, just as the trades unions forbid the strong men laying more bricks in the day than the weak men. —Horace Hutchinson, in Country Life. VANISHED FROM THE WORLD. ahe streets are filled with tine, athletic gills, but the pretty little girl, with her smile, het blush, her little foot and hand, i her gracious ways," her thanks for some smalt service rendered, where is she"? She has vanished from the highways of theworld.—Helen Mathers, in Black and White Budget. : THE LAND OF BARMAIDS. In no country are barmaids so numerous as in England. Public opinion entirely forbids their employment in Canada and the i United States ; and the law in the Transvaal and Bengal. Barmaids are not common on the- Continent, nor till lately in Scotland, and are almost unknown in Ireland.— ter Diocesan Chronicle. HOSPITAL SMUGGLING. Unless one has the right to rifle pockets, and has eves all round one's head like a chandelier,*! don't know how one can always prevent the breaking of the rule that "no food, drink, 01 drugs" shall be brought in by patients' friends. The poor things cannot realise- the danger of their act.— A Staff Nurse," in British Journal of Nursing. • AN EXTRAVAGANT ERA. A reaction will come sooner or later when we shall dress as though we were women, and not models for the display of clothes ; when the good taste for which Englishwomen were at one time famed will return to correct the ridiculous extravagances and exaggerations of the age that has produced bridge, millionaires, aire the credit system.—The Globe. _____ < "A GRAND SLAM." Major Pringle, in ids report on the recentrailway accident near Linlithgow, remarks that there were five unauthorised people in the signal-box at the time, and that they were playing cauls. Five people cannot play bridge,, but the fact mentioned goes some wav towards accounting for the grand slam.—Loudon Evening News.